The Daily Grifter is a periodical that will blow your mind by delivering Stories, Articles and Awareness Posts about the most notorious modern day and past Grifters (Con-Men) and Scams. You will not only read about today's Cons and Con Men, but also the infamous ones who have sealed their names forever in the Grifter Hall of Shame.

Gregor MacGregor (1786–1845) – Scottish con man who tried to attract investment and settlers for a non-existent country of Poyais

Jean Henri Latude (1725–1805) - French confidence man and possible lunatic who, famously, extorted money from the Madame de Pompadour and endured thirty-five years of confinement, in the Bastille and at Vincennes, for his efforts

Born or active in the 19th century

Lou Blonger (1849–1924) – organized massive ring of con men in Denver in early 1900s

Helga de la Brache (1817-1885)

Horace de Vere Cole (1881–1936)

Canada Bill Jones – riverboat gambler and card sharp

Victor Lustig (1890–1947) – born in Bohemia (today's Czech Republic) and known as "the man who sold the Eiffel Tower"

George C. Parker (1870–1936) — U.S. con man who sold New York monuments to tourists

Charles Ponzi (1882–1949) – "Ponzi scheme" is a "get rich fast" fraud named after him

Death Valley Scotty (1872–1954) prospector, performer, and con man, famous for gold mining scams and the mansion in Death Valley known as Scotty's Castle.

Eduardo de Valfierno – Argentine con man who allegedly masterminded the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911

Living people

Frank Abagnale (1948) — U.S. cheque forger and impostor; his autobiography, Catch Me If You Can, was made into a movie

Peter Foster (1962) — Australian conman with convictions and imprisonment on three continents for fraud and money laundering, known for the Bai Lin slimming tea scam and involvement in property transactions with Cherie Blair.

Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter (1961) — Bavarian-born con artist who, for nearly two decades, claimed to be a member of the wealthy Rockefeller family.

Robert Hendy-Freegard (1971) — Briton who kidnapped people by impersonating an MI5 agent and conned them out of money.

James Arthur Hogue (1959) — U.S. impostor who most famously entered Princeton University by posing as a self-taught orphan

Clifford Irving (1930) — U.S. writer, best known for a false "authorized autobiography" of Howard Hughes.

Bon Levi (1943) — Aka Ron the Con and Ronald Frederick. Arguably Australia's most notorious conman who tricked Australian and U.S. citizens into investing in scam franchise businesses. He has been jailed both in Australia and the United States.

Barry Minkow (1967) — American entrepreneur. His company, ZZZZ Best, cost investors an estimated $100 million before he served seven years in prison for fraud and other offenses.

Semion Mogilevich (1946) — is a billionaire organized crime boss and a global con artist believed by European and United States federal law enforcement agencies to be the "boss of bosses" of most Russian Mafia syndicates in the world.

Lou Pearlman (1954) — U.S. businessman and manager of boy bands, sentenced to 25 years for operating a Ponzi investment scheme

Casey Serin (1982) — Self-confessed mortgage fraudster who became the "poster child" of the housing bubble.

Michael Sabo (1945) Best known for his history as a check, stocks and bonds forger. He became notorious in the 1960s and throughout the 1990s as a "Great Impostor", and was featured on national TV, had over 100 aliases, and earned millions.

Peter Popoff - German-born American con man who takes in money by promising wealth and other benefits to be sent by God.

Different terms for con artists include: flim flam man, sham artist, shyster or sheister, bunco man (after the name of a popular "fixed" card game that has since become synonymous with scams), bamboozler, swindler, grifter and hustler.